Notable Quotes From Media Coverage of ASCE’s 2013 Report Card

The debut of ASCE’s 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, featuring a marginally improved D+ overall grade and calling for $1.6 trillion in additional investment through 2020 drew widespread interest and coverage from the news media. Here are selected quotes representative of the coverage.

“The nation’s infrastructure is crumbling a little bit less. … The latest Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, released Tuesday, has an unexpected bit of qualified good news: the grade has inched up to a D+.”

“The bad news is that the cost of bringing these engineered systems up to par comes at a time when government budgets at all levels are strained, if not in crisis. The good news is that some of the services we receive from engineered systems can be provided instead by natural systems if we restore and protect them.”

“There’s bad news and surprisingly good news in the latest report card on U.S. infrastructure from the American Society of Civil Engineers. … ASCE thinks our infrastructure is actually getting better in some areas…”

“The … underpinnings of the nation’s economy are in sorry shape, the American Society of Civil Engineers said Tuesday. But not quite as sorry as four years ago, when ASCE last evaluated the country’s infrastructure.”